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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Conflict
Syntax
Narrative Poem
2. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Pyrrhic
Parable
Irony
Convention
3. What a story or play is about.
Stanza
Narrator
Setting
Subject
4. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Allegory
Foot
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Aside
5. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Aphorism
Diction
Repetition
Style
6. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Epic
Meter
Convention
Rhyme
7. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Climax
Exposition
Antagonist
Nonfiction
8. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Elision
Elegy
Lyric Poem
Aubade
9. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Dialect
Motif
10. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Trochee
Antagonist
Voice
Epic
11. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Parody
Epiphany
Stereotype
Plot
12. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Epic
Stereotype
Simile
Irony
13. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Foreshadowing
Folklore
Nonfiction
Characterization
14. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
Nonfiction
Symbolism
Climax
15. The time and place of a story or play.
Oxymoron
Subplot
Setting
Narrator
16. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Style
Cliche
Parallelism
Sestina
17. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Catharsis
Dactyl
Fiction
18. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Foot
Legend
Complication
Subject
19. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Convention
Simile
Literal Language
Theme
20. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Nonfiction
Connotation
Solioquy
Falling Meter
21. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Connotation
Dramatic Irony
Analogy
Falling Meter
22. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Fiction
Oxymoron
Villanelle
Meter
23. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Simile
Lyric Poem
Exposition
Persona
24. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Solioquy
Falling Meter
Point of View
Figurative Language
25. A short saying with a moral.
Image
Allegory
Aphorism
Conflict
26. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Synecdoche
Dialect
Sestina
3rd Person (Limited)
27. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Dialogue
Stanza
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Falling Action
28. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Stanza
Spondee
Satire
Foil
29. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Narrator
Blank Verse
Metonymy
Internal Conflict
30. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Parallelism
Epic
Symbolism
Falling Action
31. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Internal Conflict
Conflict
Rising Action
Lyric Poem
32. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Scenes
Onomatopoeia
Denouement
Free Verse
33. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Parable
Suspense
Reversal
Stanza
34. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Pyrrhic
Theme
Personification
Myth
35. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Audience
3rd Person (Limited)
Fiction
Theme
36. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Exposition
Plot
Conceit
37. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Metonymy
Enjambment
Caesura
Villanelle
38. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Caesura
Enjambment
Sestet
Dialogue
39. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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40. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Characterization
Analogy
Fiction
Trochee
41. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Nonfiction
Allegory
Solioquy
Foreshadowing
42. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Exposition
Antagonist
Elision
Foreshadowing
43. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Dialect
Understatement
Narrative Poem
44. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Reversal
Connotation
Falling Action
Rhythm
45. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Analogy
Image
Denouement
Couplet
46. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Exposition
Allusion
Enjambment
Anapest
47. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Epiphany
Setting
Ballad
Parody
48. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Apostrophe
Recognition
Epigram
Hyperbole
49. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Lyric Poem
Diction
Parody
Characterization
50. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Parable
Irony
Act
Reversal